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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+b904a1de3ec43711eba5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	Jordy Zomer <jordy@pwning.systems>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] WARNING: refcount bug in sys_memfd_secret
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 08:37:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXTxN5skPPFPvScP@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXSQuiahbU7YyYrk@casper.infradead.org>

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 11:46:18PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On October 23, 2021 8:27:28 AM PDT, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >and my first reaction was to send a revert the untested commit 110860541f44
> > >("mm/secretmem: use refcount_t instead of atomic_t"). 
> 
> I think you should.  This isn't a real problem. 

Do you mean that creation of 4 billion of file descriptors is not feasible?

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-22 15:02 [syzbot] WARNING: refcount bug in sys_memfd_secret syzbot
2021-10-22 15:07 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-10-22 16:25   ` Jordy Zomer
2021-10-22 16:29     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-10-22 16:39       ` Jordy Zomer
2021-10-23 15:27   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-10-23 17:03     ` Kees Cook
2021-10-23 22:46       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-24  5:37         ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2021-10-24  7:07           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-10-24 10:57           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-24 15:31             ` Mike Rapoport
2021-10-23 12:02 ` syzbot
2021-10-23 22:31 ` syzbot
2021-11-24 13:47 ` syzbot

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